Removing Links From Spammy Directories
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Hi all,
I just wanted to check with you all about removing links from spammy directories. We have 100s of links from directories like this http://www.groundanchors.co.uk/ all the same layout and registered to the same person.
I just wanted to know if our rankings will be affected in any way by removing these links - bearing in mind there are 100s of them.
Many thanks.
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Does anybody know how long it will take for rankings to improve (if they do) once the links have been removed?
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Brilliant, that's good news. Good luck with everything
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I have managed to contact the website and they said they would remove the links.
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before you get involved with the disavow tool, contact the website and ask them to take them down. It will be much more efficient than just using the disavow tool and Google wants you to try and get rid of the links first.
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Absolutely remove your links / disavow links from as many of them as possible. You'll probably lose more ranking by keeping them, over the coming months.
Even if you have to work to replace them with quality links, it will definitely be worth doing!
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If you disavow links from this site, I wouldn't expect to see any drops.
The site looks extremely spammy = many links, no valuable content
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